SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Anemones and Anemonefishes: a match made in heaven

Karen Burke da Silva, Anita M Nedosyko

In: The Cnidaria, past, present and future. Editors S. Goffredo and Z. Dubinsky. The world of Medusa and her sisters, Springer Publications (2016) 

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Searching for a Toxic Key to Unlock the Mystery of Anemonefish and Anemone Symbiosis

Anita M. Nedosyko, Jeanne E. Young, John W. Edwards, Karen Burke da Silva

PLoS One, 9(5) pp. 1-8

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Marine bioactive products as anti-cancer agents: effects of sea anemone venom on breast and lung cancer cells

Mahnaz Ramezanpour, Karen Burke da Silva, Barbara J. S. Sanderson

Cancer Cell & Microenvironment. 1:13-15

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The effect of sea anemone (H. magnifica) venom on two human breast cancer lines: death by apoptosis

Mahnaz Ramezanpour, Karen Burke da Silva, Barbara J. S. Sanderson

Cytotechnology: Volume 66, Issue 5 (2014), Page 845-852

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Venom present in sea anemone (Heteractis magnifica) induces apoptosis in non-small-cell lung cancer A549 cells through activation of mitochondria-mediated pathway

Mahnaz Ramezanpour, Karen Burke da Silva, Barbara J. S. Sanderson

Biotechnology Letters, 36(3) pp. 489-495

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Differential Sensitivity of Human Lung, Breast and Skin cancer cell lines to killing by five sea anemone venom

Mahnaz Ramezanpour, Karen Burke da Silva, Barbara J. S. Sanderson

Journal of Venomous Animal Toxins, 18(2):157-163

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Effect of Dietary Carotenoids on Skin Color and Pigments of False Clownfish, Amphiprion ocellaris, Cuvier

Inayah Yasir, Jian G Qin

Journal of The World Aquaculture Society, 41(3) pp. 308-318

Effect of light intensity on color performance of false clownfish, Amphiprion ocellaris cuvier

Inayah Yasir, Jian G Qin

Journal of The World Aquaculture Society, 40(3) pp. 337-350

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Impact of background on color performance of false clownfish, Amphiprion ocellaris, Cuvier

Inayah Yasir, Jian G Qin

Journal of The World Aquaculture Society, 40(6) pp. 724-734

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Embryology and early ontogeny of an anemonefish Amphiprion ocellaris

Inayah Yasir, Jian G Qin

Journal of The Marine Biological Association of The United Kingdom, 87(4) pp. 1025-1033